Logging with HUP not working?

[John Horne]

On 11-Apr-00 at 21:21:20 Patrick Hull wrote:
> the behavior of log rolling using "versions" and "size" was apparently
> changed sometime between 8.1.2 and 8.2.2.  Previously with 8.1.2 you
> *had* to do an ndc reload/restart to get the log to roll versions, and
> the only effect of the "size" statement was to stop logging once the log
> file reached the specified size.  In 8.2.2 it seems to work more
> logically - you will need to use both "versions" and "size" to get it to
> roll.  It will no longer roll on an ndc reload/restart/reconfig - it will
> roll when it hits the size threshold.  At least that is the way it
> appears to be working to me.  I actually prefer the current approach over
> the old one.  I believe this change was "loosely" documented in one of
> the release notes.
> 
Many thanks for this, I went through the archives but did not think of
looking in the CHANGES file. In there it has:

 762.   [support]       don't rotate log file versions on server startup.

(Under an 8.2.2 version).

Unfortunately since we automate the DNS rebuilds I want to use 'swatch' to
monitor the log files and hence need to know when to HUP swatch so that it
picks up the new log files after rotation. I'll have to think about this, but
you are correct that version and size together does do the rotation.

John.

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